Improvement in collar-machines



ilf:

Letters Patent No. 83,814, dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLAR-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whomy yit may concern.:

Be it known that l, J.\.\Ii3s T. VALKER, of Alba-ny, in the county ofAlbany, and State. of iew York, have invented a new and useful Machinefor Making Gollars and Cutts; and l do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description oi' the coustruction `andoperation of the same, reference being.

hadto the accompanying drawings, making a part ot' this specification.in which- Figures l and 2 are perspective views Figure 3 is afrontelevation;

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section 5 Figures 5, (i, 7, S, il, 10, and 11are plane, side, and end lviews of the combination cutting-die andinoulder, as adapted for cutting and moulding collars;

Figures 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 1T are similar' views of the same, asadapted for cutis;

Figures 18 and 1S) arc plane and sectional end views of the adjustableand vertically-reciprocating foldingblade o1' follower, adapted for usewith the dies for making collars;

Figure 20 and 21 are similar views of the same, adapted to be usedwith-thc dies for cutis; and

Figures 22 and 23 arc plane views of the removable face-plate of thefolder, adapted to be used respectively' for collars or cuffs.

My invention consists oi' a machine so constructed and. arranged as thatit shall, by a continuons operation, produce a collar or cuff, iinishedfor use, whether the salue be made of paper, a compound fabric of muslinand paper, or from stitiened muslin; and also in so moulding and bendingthe collars or cuits, by means of the peculiar shape of -the dies, andthe act of cutting them out, as that they shall lit the contour of thewrist or neck.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use nivinvention, I will now proceed to"describe its construction andoperation.

The bed-plate A is placed and supported upon four legs, B B. On theupper side of the table thus formed are raised in suitable positions thetwo frames or supports, C C, for a walking-beam, D, and the two ways orguides E E, for a plunger,'F, O11 the under side, also in suitablepositions, are fixed the hangers G G, H H, and I 5 and there arealso.suitable apertures in the bed-plate for the purposes hereafterdescribed.

The walking-beam D'plays upon suitable bearings at a., and is operatedby the crank-shaft M, which is provided as usual with belt-pulleys,tin'ning in suitable bearings in the hangers G G, to which the shorterarm is connected by the rod N.

At the extremity of the short arm of the walkingbea-ni D, and runningthrough it and the rod N, at right angles to both, is arod, O, whichextends ashort distance beyond each side ot the bed-plate A. Attached tothe long arm of the walking-beam D, by a short arm, P, which plays atboth its extremities on the pivots b and c, and running between the twoways or guides E E, is the platen F.

Attached at right angles to the'shaft M is the cam Q, and at a suitablepoint on the side of said .cam is placed the stud li, which ,)peratesthe levers V and W at suitable intervals, and causes the folding-bladeto reciprocate vertically, as hereinafter' more fully described.

At the side ot' the bed-plate A, attached to and revolving with thecrank-sliatt M, is the gear-wheel S, which meshes into and turns anothergear-wheel, T, which revolves on the shaft U. Fixed in the hanger I,hung on the axis zZ and e, between the two hangers H Hf, are the twolevers V and lV, which are operated by the stud R and cam Q, which ateach revolution oi'- the crank-shaft M strike upon the curved short armsof both. The long arm 'of the lever W' is-joiued by a short connection,X, to the short arm ot' the lever V by pivots fand y, upon which itmoves, so that when the short arm ot' the. lever W is depressed by thecam Q the long arm, by means of this connection X, forces up the shortarm of the leverfV, which has just been depressed by the stud R uponsaid cam.

To the long arln of the lever V, and at its extremity, is attached, bymeans ofthe pin h, upon which it plays, the adjustable folding-blade Y.This folding blade is suitably curved andshaped as that it shall assistin the folding and delivery of a colla-r, or so shaped that it shalldeliver a cuff after the same is excised, as is shown in the detachedvie-ws in igs. 1S, 19, 20, and 21.

At the forward end of the bed-plate A, in front of the guides E E, is afolder, Z, which moves on an axis, yi., which is fixed in two bearingsraised from the bedplate. This folder has two short arms, a', whichextend below the bed-plate, and to which are vattached theconnecting-rods la 7:, by -Ineansx of'pivots b', their opposite endsbeing connected by pivots j j to the links Z Z, which play on twopivots, my m, fixed in the sides of they bed-plate, and to the rods -nyn, from which inotion is received through the rod O, (to which they areconnected, as will be more fully describech) attached to thewalking-beam, which is operated by the main shaft. The upper ends of therods yn. yn are provided with slots o o through which pass theextremities of the rod O, the two small springs p jp holding the rod Oto duty at the upper ends of the slotted beams, except when the pressurefrom the short arm of the walking-beam D is directly downward.

Underneath the aperture K is situated a curved box, which is secured tothe bed-plate in a proper position for the purpose of holding the paper,which is cut to the proper width and rolled on to a loose roller.

At the front of this box are xed two small feedingrollers, q and yr,properly geared together, for delivering the paper to the dies, asrequired.

They are caused to revolve intermittingly, or at each revolution of themain shaft, by the segment of gear s on the inside circumference ofthecog-wheel T, which meshes into the small gear-wheel at the extremity ofthe feed-roller lr, whose axis extends, for that purpose, through itsbearings on that side of the bedplate A.

as it is out, in veontradistinotion to creasing the same, of' the knifeY, substantially as shown and described. substantially and for thepurposes herein set forth. 9. A movable collar-shaped bed, G2, incombination 7. A Hat guide-tube, n, made adjustable,.to snit the withthe dies B2 and A2, substantially as and for the Width of the paper, andarranged With the feedingpurposes set forth.

rollers q and v', for the purposes set forth. JAMES T. WALKER.

8. vThe arrangement of the levers V and XV, and lVitnesses: cams R andQ, all constructed as shown, and operating ROBT. D. RADCLIFFE, toalternately cause the upward and downward motion E. PRENTICE TREADWELL.

